Name: Antique Print-KAMP-BORNHOFEN-CONVENT-CASTLES-Tingle-Tombleson-1832
SKU: PICTURA-09941-2
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Antique Print-KAMP-BORNHOFEN-CONVENT-CASTLES-Tingle-Tombleson-1832

€35.00

‘BORNHEFEN & RUINS OF THE BROTHERS.’

– A finely detailed steel engraving showing the town of Kamp-Bornhofen on the Rhine River, with the church Franciscan convent and the 2 ruins of Castles Sterrenberg and Liebenstein, named the fighting brothers.

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Description

Medium: Steel engraving on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 13.6 x 22.6 cm (5.35 x 8.9 inch). Image size: 10 x 20 cm. (3.94 x 7.87 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing and some dampstaining in outer margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

KAMP-BORNHOFEN-CONVENT-CASTLES | PCO-C1-29

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Tombleson’s Views of the Rhine’, Volume 1, first edition, 1832, published by Black & Armstrong, London. Foreign Booksellers to the King.

Biography engraver: James Tingle (1801?-, fl.1824-1850) was a 19th-century British engraver known for landscapes and architectural scenes, often working on topographical travel books.

Biography artist: William Tombleson (1795-1846) was a British topographical artist, illustrator, and engraver. He is best known for his detailed and picturesque views of European rivers, particularly the Rhine and the Thames.